Manage Network Traffic

16 January 2024

After you create Connector Groups, you can associate them with specific data centers or ESXi clusters.

To associate a Connector Group with the desired vCenter resources:

  1. In DataProtect as a Service, navigate to Settings > SaaS Connections.

  2. Select a VMware SaaS Connection.

  3. Click the Linked Sources tab.

  4. Click Get Started.

  5. Select Manage Network Traffic from the Actions menu (⋮) of a VMware source.

    The Manage Traffic Sources page displays the Connector Groups you have created and the hierarchy of the data centers, clusters, ESXi hosts, and folders in that vCenter.

  6. Drag the data center or ESXi host of a specific geographic region to the Connector Group. The Cohesity cluster chooses the Connector Group associated with the vCenter source closest to the VM in the vCenter hierarchy.

    For example, if CG1 is connected to the ESXi host A and CG2 is connected to a folder inside ESXi host A, Cohesity will choose CG2 to protect a VM inside that folder. For this reason, Cohesity recommends that you associate Connector Groups with data centers or ESXi hosts.

    Protection runs fail if Connector Groups with no SaaS Connectors are added to the SaaS Connection.

  7. Enter your credentials in the Username and Password fields and click Save. The Connector Group is displayed on the Manage Traffic Routes page.

Once a Connector Group is successfully associated with a vCenter source, network traffic for future VMware VM protection runs (in-progress protection runs, if any, are not affected) is steered through the Connector Group to the SaaS Connectors, thereby containing the traffic within a data center or geographical area.